SQL often gets criticized, and I think for good reasons, but why didn't we come up with something better? We have dozens of programming languages in use for ge

SQL often gets criticized, and I think for good reasons, but why didn't we come up with something better? We have dozens of programming languages in use for general programming, it is a field that is constantly evolving. Even JS, which is hard to change because that's what browsers run and you don't control your client's browser is seeing some evolution, using transpilers, and now WebAssembly. But for databases, there is only one, and that SQL. There are some alternatives, but no one comes close to SQL in terms of usage. So maybe SQL is not that bad after all. Maybe the reason is that the relational model is really good, and attempts to deviate from this will only work in a niche. That a declarative style is also really good, and again, you won't have much success if you deviate from this. And if you end up doing SQL with a different syntax, for most people, it will be too small of an improvement to justify changing their way.